Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan Chair Professorship at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches History, Jewish Studies, Social Theory, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Modern & Classical Languages, Literature & Cultures. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.M. from Harvard University.

Popkin’s research focuses on the French and Haitian revolutions and autobiographical literature. He has received fellowships from prestigious institutions such as the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Newberry Library. He has also been a visiting professor at Brown University and the Collège de France, where his lectures are available as podcasts in French. In 2012, he was a short-term visiting professor at the Australian National University, and in 2013, he was the Christian Wolff Visiting Professor at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany.

Popkin teaches undergraduate courses on the French Revolution, Europe since 1989, modern Jewish history, and the history of the Holocaust. He has directed the University of Kentucky’s Jewish Studies program and participated in its Social Theory program. From 2015 to 2016, he co-directed the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Year of Europe” program.

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Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy D. Popkin

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Zelda Popkin | The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy D. Popkin tells an amazing story. Zelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a singular contribution to the history of American Jewish women in the twentieth century.

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